Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!!
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 9 months agoThe problem with that is, if they join, they will have the most active communities. Everyone will naturally want to use those instead of the less active ones in other communities.
So, in that case, defederation may end up harming the userbase. After that, they’d basically have to rebuild the communities that got abandoned for the larger ones on Threads. Some users may even jump ship to Threads to continue using the communities they’ve become accustomed to.
So the question is: defederate and potentially harm your instance, possibly even irreparably, or stay federated and continue allowing Facebook to do what it wants?
FlordaMan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
We build this entire reddit alternative without interconnectivity with reddit, why couldn’t we do that again if threads decides to do that. People will be familiar with how lemmy works and there will be no ads here, so I don’t completely see a problem. Plus the format of lemmy is completely different from threads right?
Gestrid@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
We could, but we’d basically have to start over again. It wouldn’t be quite from scratch, but it’d be pretty close.
It depends on how Facebook implements ActivityPub. For comparison, Mastodon and Lemmy both use ActivityPub. Mastodon users can actually search for and comment on Lemmy posts, but, due to Mastodon having a specific option in ActivityPub turned off (I don’t remember which one), the reverse is not true.